Chin-Un Looi

Partner, Saison Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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He is best known for co-founding Glints, a Southeast Asian career discovery and recruitment platform, serving as its COO. He is now an early-stage venture capital investor at Saison Capital, backing fintech and Web3 startups across emerging markets, and hosts the Parents in Tech podcast.

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Glints grows talent database 15% monthly on under $1k marketing spend

“So in terms of our talent database, our month-on-month growth is actually 15%, and what we are really excited about, it's that we spend less than a thousand dollars on marketing per month.”

Chin-Un Looi Jun 8, 2016 ▶ 10:29 EP 319: He's 23 And His Asian Parents Don't Like The Non-Traditional Entprenreuer Route He's Taking

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Glints became cash flow positive within its first five years

“If you asked me five years ago, I would never be expected to build a company, but here I am five years later, building a company that's cashflow positive and it's amazing.”

Chin-Un Looi Jun 8, 2016 ▶ 2:54 EP 319: He's 23 And His Asian Parents Don't Like The Non-Traditional Entprenreuer Route He's Taking

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Looi: Glints Reached Nearly $500,000 in Total Revenue in 2015

“Our total revenue of 2015 is almost half a million.”

Chin-Un Looi Jun 8, 2016 ▶ 4:54 EP 319: He's 23 And His Asian Parents Don't Like The Non-Traditional Entprenreuer Route He's Taking

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Looi: Glints Raised $500,000 from 500 Startups and East Ventures

“So in late, we raised half a million from investors based in Asia and U S the most notable include people like 500 startups and East ventures.”

Chin-Un Looi Jun 8, 2016 ▶ 5:51 EP 319: He's 23 And His Asian Parents Don't Like The Non-Traditional Entprenreuer Route He's Taking

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Looi: Glints has placed over 2,500 students and graduates into jobs

“In terms of, once again, this is the data that we only have received. We have placed 2500 Of these students and fresh graduates into jobs.”

Chin-Un Looi Jun 8, 2016 ▶ 6:44 EP 319: He's 23 And His Asian Parents Don't Like The Non-Traditional Entprenreuer Route He's Taking

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Looi: The average employer pays Glints $1,000

“The average employer pays 1000 dollars.”

Chin-Un Looi Jun 8, 2016 ▶ 8:30 EP 319: He's 23 And His Asian Parents Don't Like The Non-Traditional Entprenreuer Route He's Taking

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Glints works with almost all Singapore universities for campus partnerships

“We are currently working with almost all of the universities over here in Singapore to create the direct campus partnerships with them.”

Chin-Un Looi Jun 8, 2016 ▶ 9:38 EP 319: He's 23 And His Asian Parents Don't Like The Non-Traditional Entprenreuer Route He's Taking

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Glints generated only $7,000 in revenue during its first operating year

“Our first year revenue was actually only 7000 and that's 7000 across the entire year.”

Chin-Un Looi Jun 8, 2016 ▶ 4:43 EP 319: He's 23 And His Asian Parents Don't Like The Non-Traditional Entprenreuer Route He's Taking

Disclosure

Chin-Un Looi: Glints wasted much of its first $50K angel investment

“Well, to spend more prudently, especially when we forgot our first angel investment, you know, we were incredible. We were like, oh wow, 50 K, that's a lot of money. We wasted a lot of money. So I wished I knew how to spend more prudently.”

Chin-Un Looi Jun 8, 2016 ▶ 14:13 EP 319: He's 23 And His Asian Parents Don't Like The Non-Traditional Entprenreuer Route He's Taking

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
EP 319: He's 23 And His Asian Parents Don't Like The Non-Traditional Entprenreuer Route He	Jun 8, 2016	5m

Chin-Un Looi

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